A judge has ruled against companies making the R4, Playables Limited and Wai Dat Chan. The judge has made it illegal to import, advertise and sell the R4 carts in Britain. Strangely though, they didn’t mention whether owning one is illegal or not. The R4 cartridges allow people to play pirated games on their Nintendo DS, but also allowed future gaming programmers and designers to create homebrew projects.

Regardless, the R4 is one device out of many available on the market and in all honesty, the new R4 cartridges aren’t as dominant as they originally were. The judge claims that the R4 is illegal because they bypass the DS’s security measures in order to run games.

“Nintendo promotes and fosters game development and creativity, and strongly supports the game developers who legitimately create new and innovative applications,” Nintendo said in a statement. “Nintendo initiates these actions not only on its own behalf, but also on behalf of over 1,400 video game-development companies that depend on legitimate sales of games for their survival.”